Rishi Sunak has challenged union leaders to call off strike action after offering public sector workers pay rises of up to 7 percent. The prime minister said on Thursday that he has accepted the recommendations from independent pay review bodies, including 6.5 percent increases for teachers in England for 2023-24, which the education unions said…
Billions at Stake as Ontario Takes Public Sector Workers to Court of Appeal
Billions of dollars are at stake as a three-day hearing at Ontario’s highest court gets underway Tuesday over the province’s controversial wage-limiting law for public sector workers. Last November, a judge with the Superior Court of Justice struck down Bill 124, Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, ruling it unconstitutional. The province…
John Robson: Federal Consultants Proliferate, but Don’t Expect More Public Sector Efficiency
Commentary Last week I said I wasn’t angling for a consulting job with the government. I have changed my mind. For a modest $250 an hour or so, plus “expenses,” I’ll advise them on how to employ fewer other consultants. It seems everyone else is a bureaucrat, public sector consultant, or consultant who used to…
Canada’s Government Sector Is Growing Faster Than the Private Sector, PBO Says
Canada’s government sector is growing faster than its private sector, and the public sector appears set to continue its growth pace, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO). “Growth has been faster in the public sector, generally speaking, than in the private sector,” PBO Yves Giroux told the Commons government operations and estimates committee on…
Truss U-Turns on Public Sector Pay 24 Hours After Promising to Save £8.8 Billion
Conservative Party leadership contender Liz Truss has dumped a policy to cut public sector pay by £8.8 billion ($10.75 billion) after being accused by the Labour Party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner of producing a “recipe for levelling down.” On Monday night Truss, who is battling former Chancellor Rishi Sunak to become the party’s new leader…
Major Public Sector Unions Challenge Federal Vaccine Mandates
Three major public sector unions are challenging federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates for government employees, saying that putting unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave when they could have worked from home is “unjust.” The Liberal government’s mandatory vaccination policies, introduced on Oct. 6, 2021, required all federal employees to be fully vaccinated with two doses of a…
Organized Crime Infiltrating Government Bodies in Canada, Warns Inter-Agency Intelligence Service
Thirty-one organized criminal groups (OCGs) have members employed in Canadian public sector agencies or departments, and six are known to have significant influence, according to a recent report by an inter-agency organization that serves to coordinate criminal intelligence among member police forces. The 2021 Public Report on Organized Crime, issued by Criminal Intelligence Service Canada…
New University Executive Salary Code to Provide Greater Transparency
A voluntary code has been introduced by the University Chancellor’s Council (UCC) with the purpose of increasing the transparency of remuneration received by university senior executives. The Australian Universities Vice-Chancellor and Senior Staff Remuneration Code (pdf) will require senior university staff to report all remuneration to the UCC, including incentives and bonuses. “Our Remuneration Code…
Pandemic Haves vs the Have-Nots
The pandemic has highlighted the challenges that developed countries face around the world. Not only that, it has also exposed Canada’s huge income inequality gap between public- and private-sector workers, where the impact is only going to increase in significance as people get older. Those who work in the public sector—the protected class of Canadians—have…
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